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By Julia Reischel on Monday, Aug. 30, 2010 - 9:45 am
The Times Herald-Record's Steve Israel writes that even though a potential moratorium on gas drilling in New York state will only last until May (and that's only if it's approved by the State Assembly and the governor), nobody will be fracking until next... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Tuesday, Aug. 3, 2010 - 5:38 pm
The Albany press corps has just witnessed official proof that the NY Senate's atrocious antics are registering on a cosmic level. Rick Karlin of the Capitol Confidential blog describes how an Act of God interrupted the state legislature's budget... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Monday, Aug. 2, 2010 - 2:50 pm
From the New York Times's City Room blog:
The current record was set in 2004, when Gov. George E. Pataki and lawmakers wrangled until Aug. 11 over how to comply with a court ruling requiring the state to fix New York City schools. That put them fully... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Friday, Jul. 2, 2010 - 3:08 pm
A bill instituting no-fault divorce in New York State, which cleared the state Senate last month, passed the Assembly yesterday with wide margins. When Gov. Paterson signs it -- which he's promised to do -- New York will join the 49 other states that... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Thursday, Jul. 1, 2010 - 8:08 pm
The state budget is still in scandalous limbo -- and though the New York state Senate has washed its hands of the people's business and gone on Fourth of July vacation, the watchful PACs who lurk in the underbrush of the New York political landscape are... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Monday, Jun. 28, 2010 - 11:28 pm
Ladies and gentlemen of New York State: We have a budget.
Sort of.
Hoping to seize control of a budget battle dominated for weeks by Gov. David A. Paterson, lawmakers voted on Monday to restore hundreds of millions of dollars in education and health... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Monday, Jun. 28, 2010 - 3:04 pm
After weeks -- months! -- of budget dithering and blathering, and despite the looming threat of a massive statewide government shutdown, the three-ring budget circus in Albany continues.
Supposedly, the Senate and Assembly agreed on a budget over the... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Tuesday, Jun. 22, 2010 - 9:15 am
Gas drilling opponents are lining up in front of the Sullivan County Government Building at 10am today, for a three-day walk from Monticello to Delhi in support of a state moratorium on drilling in the Marcellus shale. Here's the details on the walk,... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Monday, Jun. 14, 2010 - 9:34 pm
The New York legislature has passed the budget extender in time to avoid a government shutdown, with mere hours to spare. Michael Kink, Democratic policy advisor to the state Senate, tweeted a few minutes ago::
the Assembly has now voted for the budget... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Friday, Jun. 4, 2010 - 4:45 pm
While New York State is still mulling the pros and cons of Marcellus shale gas drilling, we have a ringside seat from which to watch the drama already unfolding just over the border in Pennsylvania. Exhibit A: a massive blowout last night at a... Read more
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